The Royal Engineers have taken delivery of a rapidly deployable Medium Girder Bridge for use on operations and humanitarian tasks, say the British Army.
The Medium Girder Bridge (MGB) will provide a lightweight medium gap capability and will “meet the challenges of the future integrated operating concept”.
“Chosen for its versatility and deployability, the MGB can be configured in several different ways. These include the ability to concurrently build a 31-metre double-storey and a five-bay single storey version. It can also be used with any other MGB of any age.”
Lieutenant Colonel Brad Hardwick, Senior Staff Officer responsible for the Military Engineering Combat 2028 Programme, said:
“This modernised integrated capability will give the British Army ever greater freedom to delivery military effects at a time and place of its choosing, as part of the overall Modernising Defence Programme.”
Minister for Defence Procurement, Jeremy Quin MP, said:
“These bridges provide our Armed Forces with vital capabilities in both Military and Disaster Relief operations.”
The Army will take delivery of 17 of these bridges.
Any chance one can be used in Hammersmith?
Made by WFEL I believe
Blokey on the right looks like he needs new lungs!
Double story bridge? Officers upstairs and privates downstairs. I don’t know much about these bridges. What does it mean
One storey is a normal bridge if you want to increase the load class you have to double up the side panels one on top of the other. 😀
Oh such fun on a Bailey bridge.there were all sorts of combinations.
Depends on the load your trying to achieve with the span of the bridge. Double is where you essentially have an upper and lower level to the bridge construction on an MGB. Good to see an upgrade coming through.
Another scam being advertised by UKDJ – cutting your electricity bill using a useless plugin. Yesterday it was fake celebrity endorsements of crypto currencies. Short of money?
Hi, just so you know, we don’t pick the advertisements. Google pick them based on what they think the user wants to see, we don’t manage the advertisements for the page, they do. We have no control over that, I’d suggest you report the advertisements to Google as they have the power to pull them.
Thank you for this information. I therefore apologise for maligning UKDJ.
And, I would like to add, that most of the Ads displayed are based on the viewers browsing history so I’ll see different Ads to you. And so on
Nice article, but what is the difference between the original MGB and this one if they can be combine with the older versions??